Research Paper Proposal

My topic of interest has to do with my current and future job, patient safety. Working at the hospital I learn something new about patient safety everyday. This topic is so broad and endless that it will hopefully be easy to gather lots of sources of information. I plan to interview my nurse manager at work or the doctors my mom works with. I plan on interviewing them next week after school on February 5th.  I already know basic patient safety from the classes I had to take when I got hired at the hospital, but I want to know how that changes from level to level. As you go up job levels from CNA to RA to MD, the patient safety increases and decreases in many ways and I want to know what those ways are. I'll collect information from the internet, co-workers, fliers from work, and articles. I find the topic personally interesting because it is never ending and I plan to make a future in this career and want to be as well informed as I can.

Multi-Genre Project Response: Two

        Although I am still unsure of what I want my genre topic to be, there was one inparticular project that stuck out to me from Tom Ramona's class. The project was titled, "Two",  this project was about twins. It may be weird, but I have always found the twins interesting. The project was very interesting, it talked about how important an identical twin is to the other twin. They have a unique bond that not even their husbands will ever be able to fill. I really like how on each page of the project, somewhere was different little pieces of letters from one twin to the other. One of the papers talked all about how 2 will always be their favorite number. After reading this project and hearing how the two girls look exactly alike, I began thinking about how during the Holocaust how twins were used in many experiments. I may look more into that and may even decide that will be my topic.

Post Number Three: United Nations Millennium Development Goals

       The goal I read about that sparked my interest was goal number 6, COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES. This goal interested me because it really does hit home here in the US. HIV and AIDS information in the past 15 years have hit an all time high. There are commercials, and posters almost everywhere that warn people about the diseases. There isn't one person I know who hasn't heard of these two things. I think the U.S. has done a really good job about putting the information about prevention out there for the public. Because of the wide spread information being administered by most nations there has been a dynastic decline in the two infections, "The number of new HIV infections per 100 adults (aged 15 to 49) declined by 44 per cent between 2001 and 2012." If the United Nations hope to keep the per cent of infections declining they need to do more. Commercials and posters aren't enough. The primary target of those are teens to middle aged adults. The infections are being spread at even younger ages as the years go on Pre-teens and a few years younger than that even, need to be aware of the dangers and the preventions against these two.

Article 2 Response

         The first story I read was Good Travel. It was about the way people see the world and how you should travel responsibly. If I didn't have to worry about money ever again, I  would definitely love to just set out and travel the world. The video I watched talked about how when you travel you need to remember to be respectful to people and their culture. Your travel destination is not just for fun, it is someones home and you should should treat it as you would want your home to be treated. I hadn't really put much thought into that, but now I will. The winner who created this idea wanted traveling not to just be about the site seeing, she wanted it to be more than that. She wanted the people who traveled to think of it more along the lines of giving back to the communities you visit.


          The second story I read was Sanitation Creations . This story caught my eye instantly. I have always been a freak when it comes to germs. I hate when people don't wash their hands after the bathroom or are just gross in general. I hate germs. The winner of this one was, Liz Morris. The idea he had was a way to innovate the common port-a-potty. Instead of having an open hole where you can visibly see everyone else's bowel. The invention they came up with was called the Dungaroo. Each person when using the Dungaroo does their business in a bag that is then flushed and replaced with a new bag. This decreases the spread of germs by a lot. Dungaroo's bags can then be used as energy. Another great part of this invention was that it requires no water, so in countries with  short water supply, will have one less thing to worry about.


The third and final story I read was Art to Aid. Art to Aid was an idea given by two guys who hoped to create an online market of creative art that can be sold and bought while keeping the creative minds doing the most good they can. They believe that everyone is very creative and should all deserve a chance to show that side of themselves. This story really sparked my interest because I love to draw and doodle and just create strange things. I would never have thought of something like an online market to track my works and goals and how they have impacted others. This site could really give people the courage and motivation they need in life. The site, with the right kinds of people could really take off and have a positive impact on many lives.

Article 1 Response

     
The article , 7 grammar rules you should really pay attention to, by Ben Yagoda proved to 

be very beneficial. I had heard all of the rules before, but reading a few of them had me question 

whether or not I religiously follow them. I didn't know that the verb to be was changed from was to 

were when following a non-true situation. I  usually just go with what sounds right. 
         

The quote, "I wish I was were an Oscar 

Mayer wiener.", demonstrates very clearly how a 

non-true situation needed to change the word 

was to were. I chose this quote because my mom 

used to always sing the Oscar Mayer wiener 

song and I couldn't remember if the song used were or was. 

Other grammar rules that were mentioned were ‘dangling’ conversations and semicolons. I think 

I am pretty good about using both correctly, but I know I do occasionally have a few random 

mistakes. I think this article is overall very beneficial to those who take the time to read it and apply 

the rules. 

Chinese Wedding Traditions Presentation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PZiRLxXTqJDFqrNHVzsWfpAdzNZuADcMeqQuBBtRXB8/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=20000&slide=id.g54377fae1_05

Pecha Kucha Review

                The presentation I listened to was titled, The World’s Best Cities When It Rains, by Jesper Larsson.  The presenter of this presentation did a very good job captivating the audience and keeping them interested until the very end. Larsson used a lot of humor in his slides and interesting pictures to go with it. I became interested from the first sentence, the presenter right off the bat was very loud and enthusiastic, it wasn’t at all what you were expecting from a presentation about rain.

                The presenter seemed to lose his excitement in a few places throughout the presentation, but managed to regain it and draw the audience back in. The presented talks a bit too quickly at times and stutters on a topic or two.  The images were pretty interesting, they gave different ideas then what the presenter was speaking about, but they all tied in very well.

                The presentation as a whole was very clever, the presenter clearly researched a lot of information and knew what they were talking about. I enjoyed he fact that the topic was tied very closely to the presenter’s home town.  I think Pecha Kucha isn’t as interesting as a normal presentation slide with bullets because the pictures can sometimes be somewhat distracting from what the presenter is actually speaking about. Yes, I think I will be able to fill the 10 slides with enough information.